[Misfit]fit by Batay-Csorba Architects

[Misfit]fit is a new six-storey, 32,000 square foot boutique office building situated on a small vacant site in Toronto's Liberty Village.  Seeking to build upon the rich lineage of Toronto's precast concrete history, the proposal  provides an alternative to the pervasive glass curtain wall project. The building's program is comprised of four floors of flexible office space, retail at grade, and a rooftop sculpture garden/ event space.   As Liberty Village continues its redevelopment, it's critical to ask the question: how does one add to this unique building fabric without simply producing what is there, or reverting to a glass office building which so brashly departs from the character of Liberty Village?  To propose an answer to this, we looked both within the larger building context of Toronto and within the district itself.   The first step to operating within the context of the site was to study precast concrete project and its history in the city’s development.  Despit...